Intimacy and Terror: Soviet Diaries of the 1930's

By Veronique Garros

Book Overview

The result of a unique international collaborative investigation by Russian, French, and Swiss scholars into hundreds of private, unpublished diaries found in remote libraries, archives, and family... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565842006
• ISBN13: 9781565842007
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: New Pr
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.5" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

The unthinkable, the unspeakable -- and the mundane

Fascinating, absorbing, upsetting and boring -- these diaries are all of the above.Soviet Russia's not replete with oral histories of the 30's (they didn't have a WPA; they had Stalin), nor with many trustworthy contemporary accounts. They're in here, though. It's heartbreaking to read of everyday annoyances and delights, and to know the fate that was soon to befall many of these diarists. "A Chronicle of the Year 1937" is almost more than I could bear. A sad and good book, well worth reading.